El Núvol: A Board Game to Rethink Barcelona’s Zona Franca
Roger Paez + Jordi Mansilla, 2018

| Description | 
|---|
| Faced with the dauting task of rethinking the future of Barcelona’s Zona Franca with no clear brief, we took a radical bet: to design through play. A board game was developed, including gameboard, pieces and rules, to let us explore some of the multiple potential scenarios in which a current industrial and logistics estate could progressively become a vibrant, inclusive and diverse neighborhood. Diametrically opposed to conventional master planning and hard-control urban design, the incorporation of chance and negotiation allows for exploring scenario writing, simulation and process-based design on an urban scale. | 
| Languages | 
| english | 
| Format | 
| workshop | 
| Copyright | 
| Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives | 
| Publish Info | 
| Master’s degree in Integrated Architectural Design (MIAD) at Universitat Ramon Llull. | 
